A documentary about the local food movement in the Bay Area.

Featuring

A Local, Organic Spring Dinner

Talks By

Jessica Prentice,
author of Full Moon Feast

Eric Holt-Giménez,
Executive Director of Food First

And

A Screening Of Edible City - An Introduction

With

Q & A With The Filmmakers

Thursday, June 11, 2009
6:30 - 9:30

At A Private Residence In
Mill Valley, California

6:30

Casual Buffet Dinner

7:30

Jessica Prentice
Eric Holt-Giménez
Edible City - An Introduction
Q & A With The Filmmakers

8:30

Dessert Reception

Directions and shuttle information below.

Food is cheap and widely available in developed countries, but the social and environmental costs of industrial agriculture are dire. The systems dependence on fossil fuels and chemicals has proven disastrous for our health and our environment. In the United States, healthy and affordable food is the exception instead of the norm.

Edible City tells the stories of people responding to the global food crisis in their communities and in their own backyards, and shows what we can do to create local, sustainable, and just food systems across the country and around the world.

Now is the time to tell this story about real people making real change. Edible City will provoke critical thought, further the dialogue surrounding food and our food system, and inspire audiences to action.

Edible City is currently in production and is scheduled for release in early 2010.

www.ediblecitymovie.com

Tickets for this special event are priced on a sliding scale from $25-$150.

Reservations can be made by calling 510-528-1427.
A credit card is required to hold the reservation.

Payment must be made by check or cash at the door,
or you can mail your check in advance to:
1644 Curtis Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
Make checks payable to, "Bay Area Video Coalition" (BAVC)

Seating is limited.

Jessica Prentice

Jessica Prentice is a local food activist working in the Bay Area. She co-founded Three Stone Hearth in West Berkeley, the countrys first community supported kitchen (CSK), and Locavores, an organization dedicated to promoting eating locally. Jessica is also the author of Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection, a cookbook and manual for eating locally grown, humanely raised, nutrient-rich foods using traditional cooking methods. She also created the Local Foods Wheel, an easy to use tool that helps identify what foods are in season in the Bay Area.

Eric Holt-Giménez

Eric Holt-Giménez is the Executive Director of FoodFirst/Institute for Food and Development Policy, an Oakland-based organization that works to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger. He is the author of Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture which chronicles the development of this movement in Mexico and Central America over two and a half decades. Eric´s work is animated by the belief that food sovereignty is the key to economic justice and ecological sustainability both at home and around the world.

East Bay Pictures is a production company based in Berkeley, California.

Comprised of long-time colleagues whose areas of expertise range from film production and theory, to linguistics, design, and cognitive policy, EBPI is dedicated to making media that matters.

www.eastbaypictures.com

Savory Thymes convenes artists, grassroots organizers and activists to cross-pollinate ideas, build relationships and alliances, and provide a space to build support for a wide variety of social justice initiatives. Established by Ali Ghiorsi, Savory Thymes supports and educates the public about local, sustainable food systems within the context of the global economy through events that celebrate the tastes, beauty and textures of the earth.

Savory Thymes events are sponsored by Hans Schoepflin.

Directions and Shuttle Information

There will be a shuttle running from the parking lot of the Mill Valley Middle School to the private residence where the event will be taking place beginning at 6:15 pm. The directions below will take you to the pick-up point for the shuttle. The producer of Savory Thymes kindly requests that ALL guests take the shuttle. Thank you for respecting this.

Parking for the event is located at:
Mill Valley Middle School 425 Sycamore Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
The shuttle will begin running from the parking lot to the venue at 6:15pm.

From the East Bay:
Take the San Rafael Bridge to Sir Francis Drake/101 South exit
Go through Larkspur Landing and onto 101 South
Get off at the East Blithedale/Tiburon exit
Right onto East Blithedale
Take East Blithedale to the 2nd light at Camino Alto
Turn Left on Camino Alto. Proceed to first light (Sycamore)
Turn Left on Sycamore. The Middle School is on the left. The parking lot is at the rear. If necessary, there is additional parking across the street at the Mill Valley Sewer Department

From Santa Rosa (North):
Take 101 South and exit at East Blithedale
Right onto East Blithedale
Take East Blithedale to the 2nd light at Camino Alto
Turn Left on Camino Alto. Proceed to first light (Sycamore)
Turn Left on Sycamore. The Middle School is on the left. The parking lot is at the rear. If necessary,
there is additional parking across the street at the Mill Valley Sewer Department

From San Francisco:
Take 101 North and exit at the East Blithedale exit Left onto East
Take East Blithedale to the 2nd light at Camino Alto
Turn Left on Camino Alto. Proceed to first light (Sycamore)
Turn Left on Sycamore. The Middle School is on the left. The parking lot is at the rear. If necessary,
there is additional parking across the street at the Mill Valley Sewer Department